Alleged Grand Central Slasher Cries Out for His Mom at First Court Appearance for Unprovoked NYC Attacks

The man accused of two unprovoked slashings at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday night cried out for his mother at his Christmas Day court proceeding — as a Manhattan judge ordered him held on $150,000 bail.

Jason Sargeant, 28, was arraigned on charges of assault and attempted assault for what prosecutors described as “incredibly serious” knife attacks on two people in the city’s biggest train station on Christmas Eve.

🚨🇺🇸 ANOTHER NYC SUBWAY NIGHTMARE: CHRISTMAS EVE SLASHER ARRESTED

A Brooklyn man attacked two random victims at Grand Central station, slashing a woman’s neck and a man’s wrist just days after the horrific subway burning incident.

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About 24 hours earlier, Sargeant “was screaming ‘f–k all of these people’” before he allegedly slashed a 42-year-old man across the left wrist on the stairs of Grand Central’s southbound entrance, prosecutors said.

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The suspect’s “tirade” continued as he then ran up some stairs and got into an argument with a 26-year-old woman, Imani-Ciara Pizarro, before punching her in the back of the head and stabbing her in the throat near a turnstile, according to prosecutors.

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Sargeant has three prior arrests for criminal mischief, fare beating, and assaulting a police officer, according to sources.

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